A small company that creates few "hand-painted globe" in the world

The history of the globe that you can see in the literal "take hold of the appearance of the Earth" is old, and once used as an important tool to make a strategy of war. A studio that became few in the world to make such a globe by hand-drawn exists in London suburbs.

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It is making a homemade globe based on the "based in North London"Bellerby & amp; Co."is. The company manufactures globes of various sizes by hand, and in general it is hand-painting the state of the ground surface which is often printed often one by one.


Peter Beravey, the founder and representative of the company. Mr. Bellaby, who used to succeed in the management of the bowling alley, was looking for a globe that gifts for his father 's 80th birthday, but he did not know about the desired quality. So the conclusion that Mr. Berabie issued is said to be "to make it yourself."


Even saying "make a globe" in one's mouth, the process is not easy. First make a perfect sphere as the base, then draw a map on the paper pasted on the surface. And for finishing, thin paper of the length extending from the North Pole to the South Pole in order. Initially we purchased data from professional vendors of maps and used it, but it seems that there were many mistakes and it was hard to modify, so it was decided to draw their own map from scratch by saying "If it is so" about.


The company's globe is drawn in watercolor painting, and the work is done manually. Today, about ten staff are engaged in manufacturing, and a highly artistic globe is being manufactured.


A globe in the middle of making. This model is not an accurate globe like a picture, but it is drawn in a shade that makes you feel good old days.


A color sample put in the workshop. Depending on the type, there are also things painted using vivid paint such as turquoise and Persian · Blue.


Mr. Bellby says that, unlike the map drawn on the paper, the globe that is reproduced in the same way as the actual earth and can actually touch it "tells more stories than the map" .

The company's product has a desktop size of 22.9 cm in diameterMini Desk Globes(Price 1099 pounds: about 140,000 yen), it was set on a stand made of wooden 50 cm in diameterThe Britannia(6990 pounds: about 890,000 yen), 80 cm in diameterThe Galileo(13,450 pounds: about 1.7 million yen) high-end models and so on. Among them, it is the highest peak of the world globe replica that was made for Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt during the Second World War "The Churchill". The globe's diameter is a huge model of 127 cm, and the total height including the stand reaches as much as 152 cm. It is placed on a base with built-in bearings and it is possible to rotate the globe in all directions. While watching such a globe, it is said that Churchill is planning a war strategy.

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The highest-class model "The Churchill" is limited quantity production of 40 units in total, and the price is 59,000 pounds (about 7.5 million yen). It seems that it is a production plan with only one car in a year. In Bellerby & amp; Co.'s Instagram account, more photos such as manufacturing landscape and finished products are uploaded.

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